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Heart beat get´s this nervous/speedy feeling in chest

Hello.

When i am doing exercise if i raise my heart beat like 140 bpm i start getting this slight feeling in the chest, not pain but very similar to a "nervous feeling" or some kind of a shaky disturb that get´s me to overthink about it because it is impossible not to notice. I don´t get dizzy or pain but i get nervous and shaky and like a shot of adrenaline was injected at me. It is like my heart rate stays in that rate for quite a while. Example: I work out for 1 hour (15` trendmill and 45` weight lifting). When i stop my heart rate is on it´s 130 bpm. It takes me like 30 minutes to get below 100 bpm. It varies between 130 and 150 when i´m lifting and it is in that spike that i get this strange feeling on my chest that only eases when it slows down. My blood pressure is averagely normal 12/7 and 30´ after i exercise is normal to.

Anyone around here with similar feeling? I have acid reflux and i take inderal 10 mg 2x day. I have done all heart exams (ECG, ELG, ECODOPPLER, STRESS TEST) 3 years ago and they were all ok.

Thank you. Wish you all well.
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there always we feel pain when we do  some exercise........ THanks for the information :)
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It sounds like anxiety to me! When your body responds automatically to some event, such as exercise, a flood of emotions may be triggered.
In 1927, Walter Cannon created his own theory of emotional response. He believed that you experience a situation, then feel an emotion that leads to a physiological response. In the case of exercise, the situation is one of movement and exertion, which could lead to anxiety, following Cannon's theory, because the physiological response is to run away from danger when muscles are tense and in use.
James Lange proposed quite a different theory of emotional response in 1884. He was working with psychologist William James, and together they postulated the idea that the arousal associated with an event causes humans to interpret an emotion. So in the case of exercise, you would feel anxious if you were to misinterpret the arousal and muscle use caused by exercise. In a sense, you would have mistaken exercise for the need to "fight or flight," like a challenged animal, thus creating anxiety.
Both the Cannon Theory and the James-Lange Theory suggest that human bodies signal a response before the mind can catch up. Cognitive theorists such as Richard Lazarus believe that after an event, you cognitively process it, which then leads to arousal and emotion at the same time. So, if after exercise, your brain processes your physical state as one of needing to be active or run away, the emotion to follow could be anxiety.
Learn to use the sensations and perceptions you feel as a starting place; then allow your brain sort out if you truly are in danger or merely experiencing the aftermath of an exhilarating workout. In this way, you will not likely misinterpret an innocuous event, such as exercise, as a fight-or-flight situation.
One side effect of Inderal can be anxiety!
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